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Like the ceremony, the program of music relied heavily on the traditional with a felicitous overlay of the modern. There was everything from Handel to favorite hymns of Charles (Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation) and of Diana (I Vow to Thee, My Country) to a lilting yet regal new anthem by Welsh Composer William Mathias, 46. The ceremony ended with God Save the Queen, newly arranged by Sir David Willcocks, director of the Royal College of Music, who worked the oceanic swell of that great melody into a kind of coda of moral grandeur. As the anthem died, cheers...
...private session with Reagan, as well as in the group conversations, Schmidt drove home his attack on U.S. interest levels. In his country, he claimed with some hyperbole, they had resulted in "the highest real interest rates since the birth of Christ." An economist by training and West Germany's onetime Finance Minister, Schmidt insisted that American interest rates had forced Western European countries to raise their own rates in order to keep their currencies from falling even farther behind the rising dollar. The result, he said, was declining business investment, rising unemployment and soaring oil prices, which...
Three conservative Republican Senators from the region, Reagan's friend Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Orrin Hatch and Jake Garn of Utah, have come out against the plan?so have leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...
Such sexual motifs were contrasted both visually and musically with emblems of faith. A bishop in sumptuous vestments made an appearance. Dancers knelt as a figure representing Our Lady of Kazan, the Madonna pictured on one of Russia's holiest icons, glided mysteriously onstage carrying the Christ Child...
...redistricting. Republicans in their states want to dilute the strength of black votes for Democrats by concentrating blacks in a single, overwhelmingly Democratic district. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle of this new alliance between Republicans and blacks: "It's kind of like the devil converting to Jesus Christ...